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WNST 3998 Special Studies
1 TO 4 semester hours
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WNST 3999 Independent Studies
1 TO 4 semester hours
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WNST 4000 Feminist Political Theory
4 semester hours
This course familiarizes students with the major themes and movements in the history of feminist political thought and uses gender as a lens through which to view political life. The course also takes up gender as an object of inquiry for politics.
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WNST 4001 Queer Theory
4 semester hours
This course explores the emergence, conceptual frameworks, themes, and critical tools of queer theory. This course critically analyzes sex, gender, and sexuality and the gaps between them and their interactions, as well as how these concepts are implicated in or frame many other discourses, such as the war on terror, aesthetics, death, history, race, ethics, monstrosity, nationalism, affect, punk rock, colonialism, temporality, and gentrification.
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WNST 4100 Sex, Trade, Trafficking
4 semester hours
The course will address issues of racism, sexism, classism, and violence against women who are trafficked and those who also work as sex workers. We will discuss the relationship between ethics and human trafficking as well as who benefits from such approaches.
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WNST 4101 Gender and Globalization
4 semester hours
Examines how gender is shaped by globalization through the feminization of labor and migration, environmental degradation, diaspora, sexuality, cultural displacement, and militarization. Explores the ways women have confronted these conditions as well as the possibilities and challenges of cross-border feminist coalitions.
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WNST 4200 Sex, Race, and Violence
4 semester hours
(See AFAM 4642 .)
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WNST 4300 Women in Film
3 semester hours
(See FTVS 473 .)
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WNST 4400 Women and Politics
4 semester hours
(See POLS 4330 .)
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WNST 4901 Service Learning in Women’s Studies
4 semester hours
The internship in Women’s Studies combines practical experience and feminist theory through the theme of women’s empowerment. Students work in selected placements while reading through a sequenced bibliography. They discuss their experiences and readings in seminars and papers.
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WNST 4998 Special Studies
1 TO 4 semester hours
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WNST 4999 Independent Studies
1 TO 4 semester hours
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Yoga Studies (YGST) |
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YGST 6010 Health Science and Yoga
3 semester hours
An overview of anatomy and physiology from the Western perspective and Ayurvedic theories of the subtle body, health, and wholeness.
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YGST 6015 Foundations of Yoga Studies
3 semester hours
This course will investigate basic methodological approaches to the academic study of Yoga, with an emphasis on the place of Yoga within theological discourse. It will include a bibliographic survey of primary and secondary sources and engagement with key select resources. Sikh and Christian approaches to Yoga will be included.
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YGST 6020 Yoga Philosophy: Text and Practice
3 semester hours
A close study and discussion of the Yoga Sūtras of Patanjali, the Bhagavad Gītā, select Upanishads, the Sāmkhya Kārikā, the Yogavāsistha, and other classical literature.
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YGST 6025 Sanskrit: The Yoga Sutra
3 semester hours
In this course students will translate the sutras from Patanjali’s seminal text the Yoga Sūtra.
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YGST 6026 Sanskrit: The Bhagavad Gita
3 semester hours
The Bhagavad Gītā sets forth the primary practices of philosophical and meditational Yoga, including the ways of Knowledge, Action, and Devotion. We will read select passages, completing the study of various aspects of Sanskrit grammar.
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YGST 6030 Hatha Yoga Texts
3 semester hours
This course in movement and breathing (Āsana and Prānāyāma) will draw from classical texts such as the Hatha Yoga Pradipikā, the Gherhanda Samhitā, and the Yoga Sāstra, with particular attention to practice applications. Requires demonstration of student teaching skills.
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YGST 6040 Buddhism and Yoga
3 semester hours
Yoga’s relationship with Buddhism will be explored with an emphasis on Vipassana, Tibetan Buddhism, and Zen.
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YGST 6041 Jaina Yoga
3 semester hours
This course, conducted in India, will study the Jain traditions of Yoga including Preksha meditation and its emphasis on nonviolence. This course will also immerse the students in Jainism through philosophy, ethics, cosmology, and art. This course is generously subsidized by the International School for Jain Studies.
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YGST 6050 History of Modern Yoga
3 semester hours
Yoga entered European and North American consciousness through the Romantic poets, the New England Transcendentalists, and the world lecture tour of Swami Vivekananda following the Parliament of the World’s Religions in 1893. In the 20th century, Paramahamsa Yogananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Swami Sivananda, Swami Krishnamacharya and many others introduced large groups of people to the principles and practices of Yoga. The course will explore this legacy. Students will be required to demonstrate teaching ability from select traditions.
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YGST 6082 Comparative Mysticism
3 semester hours
In this course, Christian mysticism as found in the writings of Teresa of Avila and Meister Eckhart is compared and contrasted with the interior traditions of India and East Asia including Sāmkhya, Yoga, Taoism, and Yogācarā Buddhism.
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YGST 6095 Comprehensive Exam Seminar
3 semester hours
In this course students will be taught study tactics and will work together in preparation for two comprehensive exams. The first question will demand a demonstration of the breadth of knowledge they have learned while the second question will focus more specifically on an area of particular interest to the student within Yoga Studies.
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YGST 6096 Writing and Research Seminar
3 semester hours
This course will guide the students as they write their final thesis. The course will aid them through the process by introducing research methods and writing techniques in order to complete a clear final thesis or research project. Students will be able to help one another as different phases of their given projects will be shared in class.
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YGST 6998 Special Studies
1 TO 3 semester hours
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YGST 6999 Independent Studies
1 TO 3 semester hours
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